Building Community Connections
Tackling Shared Challenges
Building Understanding
Creating Solution-Focused Convenings
Training Trainers in East Africa
Empowering Community Engagement
Building Community Connections

In the village of Air Papan in rural Malaysia, students, researchers, and community members come together to discuss how to work together to solve pressing challenges for the village. 

Tackling Shared Challenges

At a facilitation for the Rockefeller Foundation’s initiative for Food Waste and Spoilage in Ghana, stakeholders from across the value chain clarify shared challenges around post harvest loss. 

Building Understanding

At a GKI-designed matchmaking session, researchers from Afghanistan and Pakistan come together to discuss shared challenges and find a basis for cooperation

Creating Solution-Focused Convenings

GKI designed and co-hosted with Pennsylvania State University the inaugural Africa Collaboration Colloquium, which brought together over 80 global problem solvers to address food security challenges.

Training Trainers in East Africa

GKI partnered with UNESCO and the Nelson Mandela Africa Institute of Science and Technology to create a training-of-trainers program for innovation systems leadership in Tanzania. 

Empowering Community Engagement

Researchers commit to specific challenges, prioritized by the community, for which they are enthusiastic to pursue research.